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I Always Want to Be
Pursuing Creativity
Masako Wakamiya

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What I’ll Be Talking About Today
★ Who I Am
★ What I’m Creating

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◆ Who I Am (1)
I was born in April 1935.
Since graduating
high school until retirement,
I’d worked at a bank.
After retiring, I’d been taking care of my
mother and enjoying spending time with my
generational peers at the Mellow Club.

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◆ Who I Am (2)
The Mellow Club has enabled me to stay
abreast of a wide range of information and
helped me to make many good friends.
The computer has given me wings.
These wings have taken me out of the
confines of my home and into a wider
world.

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◆ Who I Am (3)
10 years after retirement, my mother passed
at the age of 100. That’s when I started
teaching computer class at home, so that
people of my age group can also experience
the joy of using a computer.
I found that there weren’t many
computer textbooks designed for seniors,
so I decided to make my own. One of
them is “Excel Art.”

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★ What I’m Creating
Excel Art

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Use the function "fill the cell" or "paint color"

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Use the function “fill the cell” or “paint color“ 2

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Use the function "fill the cell" or "paint color“ 3

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Use of the Fill’s “Pattarn Function“ 4

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Use of the Fill’s “Pattarn Function“ 5

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Use the “Ruled line" or “Border"

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Use the “Ruled line" or “Border“ 2

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Works that made Excel Art 3D (by microsot 3D builder)

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Works that made Excel Art 3D 2

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Examples of goods using Excel Art designs

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★ What I’m Creating
A pendant with 3D printer

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How to make a pendant with 3D printer?
First, I made a design drawing with free software.
Next, I made a pendant by
using the 3D Printer of the
town's studio.

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an Game App called “Hinadan.”
★ What I’m Creating

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The Reason Why I Made the App
Increasingly more seniors are using smartphones and tablets.
But there aren’t many apps that seniors can enjoy.
Game apps are especially hard to find.
I asked a young developer to make one, but my request was
not fulfilled.
However, there was someone that taught me how I could make
one myself.

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Why I Chose “Hinadan” as the Theme
🍑 Girl’s Festival is an annual event that prays for the healthy growth of girls.
🍑 “Hinadan” is a tiered platform for displaying ornamental dolls during the
Girl’s Festival.
🍑 There is a rule to how the dolls should be displayed.
🍑 Seniors know this rule so they have an
advantage when playing the game against a
younger person.
🍑 I wanted to unveil it at the Digital Girl’s Festival
hosted by the Broadband School Association

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How I Made the App
🌸 I first created a flow chart
🌸 I chose a development software and studied it on my own
🌸 I met with someone that will teach me
🌸 I prepared the content
Images (which I asked Setsuko Mineo-san to create)
Sound effects
Voice recording (I asked a professional)
🌸 I went through the process of registering the app with
Apple

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Creating the Flow Chart Continue this
process until all of
the dolls have been
placed.
Has it been
executed?
Doll number
= location number
How the screen would
look like when finished
1. Display the words
“incorrect”
2. Activate sound
effect B.
3. Screen remains the
same
1. Display the words “correct”
2. Activate sound effect A
3. Replace the image of the doll
and the position.
(the bottom part of the screen
will be eliminated)
Image of
“Maro”
Bottom part of
the screen (where
the dolls were) is
empty
1. Set the timer off. Display the time spent to
finish the game.
2. Turn off the BGM.
3. Display the image of Maro and the call-out

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🌸 Selecting the development software: Apple’s “Swift”
Creating the Flow Chart

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🌸 Prepare to learn remotely
My teacher was Mr. Koizumi
living in Miyagi prefecture.

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I simply started to “try making it”
❁ I only learned coding that were directly needed for
“hinadan”.
❁ I prepared to be registered as a developer while
developing the app.

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🌸 Images (asked Setsuko Mineo-san to create)

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I was a long time Windows user
until then, and had only just
purchased MacBookAir.
I was not familiar with the
operation.
What was difficult

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I learned the basics of coding by apps
such as PlayGround

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But the development was difficult

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Only having fragmented knowledge of
coding, it was difficult to develop a
comprehensive program that would serve
the purpose.
Developaprogramthat
servesthepurpose

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Everything in English, was very difficult
Programming, error messages,
formalities for Apple,
everything was in English. English
EnglishEnglish
English
English
English
English
Program
Errors E-mails

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Dear Masako Wakamiya,
The following app has been approved.
and the app status has changed to Ready for Sale:
App Name: hinadan
App Version Number: 1.0
App Type: iOS
App SKU: hinadan
2/24/2017 I received the below notice from Apple
Fortunately I was able to release my app

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★ What made me happy
Users comments after the app was released
・A senior who had never touched a smartphone before enjoyed the game.
・Thanks to this game enjoyable to 3 generations, my mother, me and my
child
・Since this game is fairly slow, handicapped children are likely to be
interested.
（from a teacher at special needs school）
There was an incredible amount of response

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Unexpected number of downloads
The # of downloads
The number of people
who check the app at
AppStore

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In addition to CNN, my story was covered by
media in over 40 languages.
http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2017/03/02/81-year-old-iphone-app.cnnmoney

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http://www.pravda.rs/2017/03/01/u-81-godini-
napravila-prvu-aplikaciju-za-pametni-telefon/
http://techstart.presslogic.com/2017/03/01/article/21770/
By Presslogic on 01 Mar 2017

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http://naidunia.jagran.com/world-81-year-old-
japanese-woman-creates-her-first-app-1028763
http://egy-sense.blogspot.jp/2017/03/81.html
Naidunia
Egypt Sense

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I was
interviewed by
many Japanese
media.
List of TVs, radios, magazines and newspapers that I was interviewed

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In June, Apple invited me to join WWDC2017

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I had the opportunity to speak with Mr. Cook,
Apple’s CEO.

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At WWDC2017 Keynote, Cook CEO introduced me

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By the way, the pendant I wored at that time is the
homemade thing I told you earlier.

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What I want to do in future
I want to learn programming thoroughly.
I want to make this app multilingual.
Ideally, I want to create a new game app.
I want this app to be something that can be
enjoyed by
both handicapped people and seniors,
while also helping handing down the Japanese
traditions to the younger generations.

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◆ Reason why I want to be creative
I think that act of creating things is the most
humanlike activity, something that AI cannot do.
That is why I want to be creative.
Thank you for listening.
Masako Wakamiya